> > FLAC has a minor compression but not as much as MP3s. Much much much better than > MP3, > > that's for sure. > > WAV -> around 1400 kbps > > FLAC -> between 950 kbps and 1100 kbps (depends on the encoder choices) > > This is like comparing jpeg and png. > > MP3 is a lossy compression which means it doesn't contain all the data of the > original file. While FLAC is eeer... name is speaking for itself: Free Lossless Audio > Codec... Free Lossless... Lossless... Think about a zip file! you can go from raw to > zipped and back from zipped to raw without any data being loss. This is what lossless > means.
It'll still be somewhat smaller than a WAV file. Complex songs do make large FLACs, but for simple sample stuff, there won't really be much of a difference.
Plus remember, MAME, hard drive, impunity, etcetera.
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